Jill Kolongowski is the author of the essay collection Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me (Ulysses Press, 2017). Other essays are published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Insider, Brevity, Sweet: A Literary Confection, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Jill lives in Northern California, where she is at work on a new essay collection about anxiety, disaster, and hope, too. You can find Jill and her newsletter at jillkwrites.com.